Using iPaaS to Expand Integration Capabilities: Lowering Costs and Complexity Through Retirement and Consolidation

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In 2012 Novartis did a strategic evaluation of their middleware strategy which consisted of two traditional, full-featured, on-premises solutions supporting over 140 active integrations. Both were proving slow and expensive to develop and maintain, and the team was spending time and resources on upgrades and maintenance rather than business value.

An integration Platform-as-a-Service (iPaaS) offering was used in an initial proof of concept (POC) to connect internal Novartis data with Salesforce.com. The technical approach was to select endpoint interfaces from the iPaaS library and modify them to fit Novartis-specific data mappings. This project took about 25 hours to complete, and saw a 10-fold cost savings over the tools and process they had in place. As a result of this POC, Novartis invested in the iPaaS solution and plans 600-700 integrations, 90% of which are on-premise to on-premise, or A2A, with 10% B2B integration.

Novartis subsequently decided to phase out their legacy integration middleware and starting in 2012, began migrating these integrations to the iPaaS. This year they plan to migrate off their second on-premises middleware system to address compliance risks and to match their cloud-enabled enterprise needs in the future. Novartis is also reducing the number of servers dedicated to integration from 28 to 8. They realized that ETL, EDI, application integration, and cloud integration are converging and an iPaaS solution can meet their requirements, now and into the future, quickly and at a low cost. This presentation will examine Novartis’ story.

Keywords:

cloud

pharmaceuticals

integration

enterprise architecture

Speaker First Name:

Thomas

Speaker Last Name:

Barton

Speaker Job Title:

Global Enterprise Architect and Head of Integration Services

Speaker's Company Name/Affiliation:

Novartis

Speaker Bio:

Thomas is a seasoned technology executive with broad-based management experience, leading international teams in Enterprise Architecture consulting, and the real world application of Cloud Computing, Mobility, Middleware Integration, iPaaS, and Business Process Management. As head of Integration Services for Novartis, Thomas is responsible for enterprise middleware at the global level. As a former entrepreneur and CTO, Thomas is an accomplished leader with over 15 years of experience in diverse industry verticals delivering complex technology solutions that meet business needs through partnership, communication and collaboration, with a focus on financial impact and results.

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Speaker's Postal Address:

Redwood Room

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 10:10

6th annual Cloud Slam 2014 Cloud Computing Conference, San Francisco CA, June 4, 2014. Cloud Computing Events 2014 - enterprise architecture

Using iPaaS to Expand Integration Capabilities: Lowering Costs and Complexity Through Retirement and Consolidation